Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: And Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volumen2Harper, 1843 |
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... circumstance , together with the fine- ness of the weather , and the tempting appearance of the shore of Cockburn Island , which seemed better calculated for travelling than any that we had seen , combined to induce me to despatch ...
... circumstance , together with the fine- ness of the weather , and the tempting appearance of the shore of Cockburn Island , which seemed better calculated for travelling than any that we had seen , combined to induce me to despatch ...
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... circumstances , but in the present instance , proba- bly , fatal to our best hopes and expectations . The young ice had now formed so thick about the Fury , that it became rather doubtful whether we should get her out without an ...
... circumstances , but in the present instance , proba- bly , fatal to our best hopes and expectations . The young ice had now formed so thick about the Fury , that it became rather doubtful whether we should get her out without an ...
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... circumstances would permit . An early release in the spring could here be scarcely expected , nor , indeed , did the nature of the ice about us , independently of situation , allow us to hope for it ; but both these unfavourable cir ...
... circumstances would permit . An early release in the spring could here be scarcely expected , nor , indeed , did the nature of the ice about us , independently of situation , allow us to hope for it ; but both these unfavourable cir ...
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... circumstances , which served to distinguish this winter from any preceding one we had passed in the ice . One of the most remarkable of these was the frequent occurrence of hard , well - defined clouds , a feature we had hitherto ...
... circumstances , which served to distinguish this winter from any preceding one we had passed in the ice . One of the most remarkable of these was the frequent occurrence of hard , well - defined clouds , a feature we had hitherto ...
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... circumstance , as it still appeared to me , was to be attributed , as be- fore , to our speaking a kind of broken Esquimaux that habit had rendered familiar to our old acquaint- ance , rather than to any essential difference in the true ...
... circumstance , as it still appeared to me , was to be attributed , as be- fore , to our speaking a kind of broken Esquimaux that habit had rendered familiar to our old acquaint- ance , rather than to any essential difference in the true ...
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animals appeared arrived beach board the Fury boats bone breeze canoes Captain Hoppner Captain Lyon circumstance clear close clothes coast Cockburn Island considerable continued course direction distance dogs dovekies drift eastward eight Esquimaux extreme farther fathoms favourable feet five floe four fresh Fury's gale Greenland half past halted Hammerfest hauled Hecla huts Igloolik inches inlet journey Kabloonas kind labour land latitude length Lieutenant longitude by chronometers loose ice manner miles morning night noon northward NORTHWEST PASSAGE observed occasion officers open water party pemmican piece provisions quantity quarter reindeer remarkable rest round sail scarcely seahorse season secured seven P.M. ships shore side six A.M. skin sledge snow soon southward Spitzbergen strait Table Island tent thick tion Toolemak travelling usual walrus ward weather westward whale whole wind Winter Island winter passed women yards